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Election Vocabulary Word List (389)
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Election parts of speech: Nouns: A: absentee, accountability, activist, advertising, affiliation, amendment, announcement, appeal, appearance, apprehension, approach, appropriation, arguments, aspiration, asset, assimilation, at large, audience, authority, authorization, B: balanced budget, ballot, ballot box, bandwagon, barnstorming, behavior, biannual, bias, bicameral, bill, bipartisan, boondoggle, brochure, budget, bunk, bureaucrat, C: campaign, candidate, canvass, catalyst, caucus, ceiling, centrist, challenge, challenger, charisma, checks and balances, cheers, clapping, coalition, coast-to-coast, coattail, collaboration, collective, commitments, committee, commonality, communication, compassion, concessions, confidence, congress, conscience, consequence, constituent, constitution, contribution, controversy, convention, council, D: dark horse, debate, decision, deficit, delegate, deliberation, democrat, democracy, demonstrator, derision, destiny, dishonesty, dissatisfaction, district, division, dogma, donation, donor, dossier, E: editorials, elation, electoral college, emphasis, empowerment, endorsement, ethics, euphoria, executive, exit poll, experience, F: faction, feud, filibuster, flag, flaws, focus, forum, fraud, freedom, front runner, funding, fundraiser, G-H: gains, gambit, gerrymander, GOP, government, grass roots, handshakes, hard money, honesty, hooray!, hypocrisy, I-J-K: incentive, incumbency, incumbent, influx, initiative, integrity, interests, issues, jitters, judge, knowledge, L: lame duck, landslide, last minute, leadership, leanings, legalization, legislature, lobbyist, loser, loss, loyalty, M: machine, magistrate, majority, measures, meetings, mentor, midterm election, minority, motives, mudslinging, N: nationwide, negativity, newspapers, nominee, nonpartisan, numbers, O: obligation, obsequious, opinion, opportunity, opposition, orator, oratory, outspoken, ovation, P: PAC, pamphlets, participation, partisanship, party, petition, platform, plurality, policy, politician, politics, poll, polling place, pollster, popularity, pork barrel, position paper, pragmatist, praise, precinct, preparation, pride, primary, priority, projection, promises, propaganda, proponent, proposal, purpose, Q: query, quest, quorum, quotes, R: race, re-election, reapportionment, reception, recognition, reconciliation, recrimination, referendum, registration, representation, republican, resignation, resilience, restrictions, revelations, revenues, rhetoric, roll call, runoff, S: scope, senate, seniority, shortcoming, sidelines, sinecure, slate, slogan, solicitation, solution, spectacle, speech, spending, spin, stakes, stance, state's right, statute, strategist, strategy, straw poll, studies, subcommittee, success. suffrage, support, system, T: tactics, talk, taxpayer, term, term limit, ticket, town hall meetings, turnout, U-V: uniformity, unity, vacancy, veto, victory, view point, violations, VIP, volunteers, voter, vulnerability, W-X-Y-Z: ward, whistle-stop, wild-card, wing voters, winner, xenophobia, youth, zeal, zone, Verbs: A-Z acclaim, appoint, articulate, assemble, capitalize, concede, convene, declare, defeat, dominate, elevate, enact, equal, incorporate, indulge, infallible, invest, investigation, jeer, nominate, opine, pardon, picket, pledge, polarize, poll, ratify, recall, recount, recover, redistrict, reform, regulate, rescind, research, retort, shift, shuffle, spar, speculate, stumble, stump, sway, tally, vie, withdraw, withhold, woo, yell, yield, Adjectives: Adverbs: You create them!
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| Note: Words in CAPITAL letters refer to election vocabulary in themed content on the home page. Vocabulary University features election Comic Strips: The Vocons. They emphasize electoral and voting process vocabulary. They create a mental image and visual word association through an election story. This election vocabulary is FREE. Name: CANDIDATE SAM Place & Time: Your Town, USA Setting: Election Campaign headquarters of the candidates, Herb and Sam Twelve ELECTION Vocabulary Words (in order of appearance): CONTROVERSY, ELOQUENT, DECLARE, CANDIDATE, STRATEGY, BUNK, CANVASS, VETO, ADVERSE, JUBILANT, GRACIOUS, CHARISMA The Candidate Samstory highlights election words. These 12 Election comic strips tell a story about an election campaign in sequential order. They also include an election jargon word list in context. The Election word list at www.myvocabulary.com is written in capital letters, drawn as a comic in Candidate Sam. 48 Election cliches and quotes from the election-process category: Throw your hat into the ring Politics makes strange bed fellows Hell bent for election Vote with your feet Those who can fairly carry an election can also suppress a rebellion Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets Put my foot in my mouth Jumping on the bandwagon If you can not take the heat, stay out of the kitchen You can not judge a book by its cover It is not whether you win or lose, it is how you play the game Throw in the towel Skeletons in the closet Caught between a rock and a hard place Straight as an arrow A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush Love it or leave it Another face in the crowd Give an inch, take a mile Do not make a mountain out of a molehill The old gray mare just is not what she used to be Hindsight is 20-20 If wishes were horses then beggars would ride A chain is only as strong as its weakest link If at first you do not succeed, try and try again The buck stops here Opportunity only knocks once Always a bridesmaid, never a bride The squeaky wheel gets the grease Do not count your chickens before they hatch The end justifies the means Where do you hang your hat? Do not put the horse before the cart The lesser of two evils It takes all kinds Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never harm me Where there is smoke, there is fire Give him/her enough rope to hang him/herself That is like closing the barn door after the horse escapes You can lead a horse to water but you can not make it drink Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades You can not judge a book by its cover There are only two certain things in life: death and taxes Let us run it up the flagpole and see who salutes Do not put all your eggs in one basket It is not over until it is over Cheat/fool me once, shame on you. Cheat/fool me twice, shame on me! He who hesitates is lost Whistle stop www.myvocabulary.com offers more than 685 word lists. Please go to the home page for Election worksheets, election word games, word puzzles and themed content with Latin roots that align with Common Core Standards. 2500 pages of free content are available only online. There are no ads and no fees. |